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Having little or no experience with playing turn-based games in a multiplayer setting, I was afraid that I would get hit with hate messages for sucking at Frozen Synapse. But in the two matches I lost last night, no one said a word.

I think the asynchronous nature of the game precludes much trash talking, even when both players are present at the same time.

Kings Bounty Armoured Princess was a mostly great fun 32 hours of my life according to Steam. Some annoying wandering back and forth to replenish troops but that never takes long. A few dickish bossfights but they tend to be optional and you can come back later to crush them.

Isn't it a bit strange having both Crossworlds and AP in the bundle though? I thought one (CW) was basically the other (AP) plus some other stuff.

Kings Bounty Armoured Princess was a mostly great fun 32 hours of my life according to Steam. Some annoying wandering back and forth to replenish troops but that never takes long. A few dickish bossfights but they tend to be optional and you can come back later to crush them.

I like it a lot too, and unlike with The Legend, it's not quite as easy to paint yourself into a corner (i.e. run out of troops).

Isn't it a bit strange having both Crossworlds and AP in the bundle though? I thought one (CW) was basically the other (AP) plus some other stuff.

The Steam versions are actually two different full installs, so Crossworlds isn't just an add-on. Not sure why.
But yeah, since you can play the original AP from Crossworlds, it seems a bit odd to include them both.

Ahhh damn those bundles, they're to blame for 90% of my "backlog". If I'm to be realistic, ie playing one of the Bounty-games, which should it be?

Armored Princess, in my opinion. Some people prefer Legend, though. I just thought AP had more charm, but then, I am rather fond of the pet dragon. Plus, I keep running out of troops to buy in Legend, so I never get very far.
If you have Crossworlds, you might go for that; the main campaign is AP with extra bits (although the original AP has more than enough bits already, really).

I just got Steamrolled. I wanted to buy the Quake pack only to learn that "You already own everything in this pack".
So I bought the Heretic and Hexen pack instead. It doesn't have Heretic 2, which is a shame...

Sleeping Dogs is also 75% off, good amount of fun to be had. Personal recommendations for DLC are Year of the Snake, Zodiac Tournament and some outlandish cosmetic stuff (Nightmare in North Point was OK).